Dipping his webbed flippers
I wonder if this figurative sentence has another meaning?
Hbmomberguy: Here he is dipping his webbed flippers into the pool of climate change with his signature Shapiro intellect.
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Ben Shapiro: So let’s say, let’s say, for the sake of argument, that all of the water levels around the world rise by- by, let’s say, five feet over the next hundred years.
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May I ask: "another" in addition to what?
- May I ask: "another" in addition to what?
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You dip your toes in the water to check the temperature before diving in. This is often used figuratively to mean to embark tentatively on a project with the intention of stopping if it does not suit you. The writer has extended the metaphor to a comical degree, replacing toes with webbed flippers, I suppose implying that this Shapiro is closely associated with things hydrological in some way.
0"signature Shapiro intellect" sounds sarcastic to me. Also, while "dipping his webbed flippers into" is clearly an adaptation of the expression "dip one's toe into", the choice of "webbed flippers" might also be intended as insulting.
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